REFERENCES FOR ALGORITHMS

[Thomas B. Kinsman]

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   Note:	This is a language independent question.
		It may be cross posted.
   Note:	This is a question on DESIGN, NOT on implementation.
   Question:	Which books are frequently used as INITIAL 
		references for algorithm design?
   Situation:	Imagine you know what you want to do, and you are about
   		to look in a book to see what methods have been used before.
	   	You aren't doing anything out of the mainstream like strange 
		attractor modeling...  
		You are about to do a search on a tree, a hashing function...
   i.e.:	***  Which book do YOU go to first???  ***
   Reply:	Please mail directly to ME.  Serious responses only please.
   Results:	I will post a list on December 22, 1988,
   		and you can all tear it apart then.
   Thanks:	In advance for all those that respond.
   Joke:	"We asked two thousand Software Engineers, if stranded in orbit, 
		 which reference they would want to have along."
   Author:	Thomas B. Kinsman
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